Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PART, v.t. [L. partio; Fr. partir; parthu.]

1. To divide, to separate or break; to sever into two or more pieces.
2. To divide into shares; to distribute. – Acts ii.
3. To separate or disunite, as things which are near each other. – Ruth i.
4. To keep asunder; to separate. A narrow sea parts England from France.
5. To separate, as combatants. Night parted the armies.
6. To secern; to secrete. The liver minds his own affair / And parts and strains the vital juices. – Prior.
7. In seamen's language, to break; as, the ship parted her cables.
8. To separate metals.